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Description for ESPN
Hardback. Recounts the meteoric rise of America's first 24-hour sports network. Part corporate history, part media and cultural analysis, and part expose, the book examines both the positive developments made and the bad habits picked up from the US sports business. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; KNSP; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 649.
ESPN: The Uncensored History is the first book to provide a critical analysis of the 20-year history of Americas original and largest sports network. Through information gleaned from internal documents, police and court records, and interviews with network employees, on-air talent, producers and executives, this book investigates the inside story of ESPN and brings it to you uncensored.
ESPN: The Uncensored History is the first book to provide a critical analysis of the 20-year history of Americas original and largest sports network. Through information gleaned from internal documents, police and court records, and interviews with network employees, on-air talent, producers and executives, this book investigates the inside story of ESPN and brings it to you uncensored.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780878332397
SKU
V9780878332397
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Michael Freeman
Michael Freeman is a sportswriter with The New York Times and has held several positions as a reporter at The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Dallas Morning News. He currently covers the National Football League. Freeman was named 'Sports Journalist of the Year' in 2000 by The Village Voice. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Reviews for ESPN
This is a must-read for ESPN and sports fans alike.
Gadflyonline.Com
The tale of ESPN's rise digs deeply...into behind-the-scenes shenanigans...
Sports Illustrated
...powerful and entertaining.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Extensively researched, ESPN: The Uncensored History presents a fascinating, candid, revealing story in clear, unambiguous, and highly evocative language. A singularly memorable and compelling 'tell-all' book, ESPN: The Uncensored History is strongly recommended reading for all sports buffs.
Library Bookwatch
Network stoolies are buzzing about a...book on ESPN by New York Times sports writer Mike Freeman...sounds real juicy
New York Daily News
...a fascinating new book...might make you watch ESPN in a whole new way.
Book Page
Michael Freeman tells the story with the same urgency and breathlessness that ESPN brings to its coverage of sports.... a dazzling American success story ....
American Way
Freeman uses network documents, court records, and (often anonymous) interviews with past and current employees to make this a compelling read. Highly recommended.
Library Journal
After reading this explosive book it's hard to believe that a network owned by the squeaky-clean Disney Corporation could allow the sexual hijinks that go on at ESPN to escape their corporate scrutiny. A devastating read.
Publishers Weekly
Michael Freeman provides the first book of critical analysis of the original and largest sports network.
Sports Collectors Digest
Give Freeman points for diligent research [and] for his no-nonsense history of how the all-sports network evolved.
Philadelphia Daily News
... compelling subject matter for any sports fan.
Daytona News-Journal
Freeman, a skilled and concise writer, does an exceptional job of telling the entire story—warts and all ....
Baltimore Sun
... sizzling expose ... truly shocking.
Publishers Weekly
This story would make a terrific Outside the Lines. Yet ESPN's investigative series ... wouldn't touch the material ... with a 10-foot TelePrompTer.
Orlando Sentinel
Michael Freeman has captured the essence of the freewheeling, 24-hour cable network that pioneered not just sports television, but the cable industry itself.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
... give[s] the reader a real insight to the early days at ESPN.
Tampa Tribune
... stunning ... fascinating ....
Chicago Sun-Times
Gadflyonline.Com
The tale of ESPN's rise digs deeply...into behind-the-scenes shenanigans...
Sports Illustrated
...powerful and entertaining.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Extensively researched, ESPN: The Uncensored History presents a fascinating, candid, revealing story in clear, unambiguous, and highly evocative language. A singularly memorable and compelling 'tell-all' book, ESPN: The Uncensored History is strongly recommended reading for all sports buffs.
Library Bookwatch
Network stoolies are buzzing about a...book on ESPN by New York Times sports writer Mike Freeman...sounds real juicy
New York Daily News
...a fascinating new book...might make you watch ESPN in a whole new way.
Book Page
Michael Freeman tells the story with the same urgency and breathlessness that ESPN brings to its coverage of sports.... a dazzling American success story ....
American Way
Freeman uses network documents, court records, and (often anonymous) interviews with past and current employees to make this a compelling read. Highly recommended.
Library Journal
After reading this explosive book it's hard to believe that a network owned by the squeaky-clean Disney Corporation could allow the sexual hijinks that go on at ESPN to escape their corporate scrutiny. A devastating read.
Publishers Weekly
Michael Freeman provides the first book of critical analysis of the original and largest sports network.
Sports Collectors Digest
Give Freeman points for diligent research [and] for his no-nonsense history of how the all-sports network evolved.
Philadelphia Daily News
... compelling subject matter for any sports fan.
Daytona News-Journal
Freeman, a skilled and concise writer, does an exceptional job of telling the entire story—warts and all ....
Baltimore Sun
... sizzling expose ... truly shocking.
Publishers Weekly
This story would make a terrific Outside the Lines. Yet ESPN's investigative series ... wouldn't touch the material ... with a 10-foot TelePrompTer.
Orlando Sentinel
Michael Freeman has captured the essence of the freewheeling, 24-hour cable network that pioneered not just sports television, but the cable industry itself.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
... give[s] the reader a real insight to the early days at ESPN.
Tampa Tribune
... stunning ... fascinating ....
Chicago Sun-Times